This article reviews key works in the anthropology of mass incarceration, generated by anthropologists and their interlocutors whose research is directed outside physical sites of imprisonment. My geographical focus is on the United States during the last decade's political and economic Zeitgeist, shaped by the manifestations and consequences of the carceral state and the prison industrial complex. My discussion is also guided by research invigorated by anthropology's decolonizing drive and growing concern about racism within and outside the academy. Along the way, and emphasized in the final section, I make the case that anthropology's abiding interest in kinship is a productive approach for configuring our understanding of the American carceral state and the racial landscapes of carcerality. The research reviewed shows how deeply carcerality is embedded in race, illuminating its destructiveness in Black and brown communities, yet also revealing the creation of regenerative spaces of kinship.

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监狱国家：一个美国故事


本文回顾了大规模监禁人类学的重要著作，这些著作由人类学家及其对话者撰写，他们的研究针对的是实际监禁场所之外。我的地理重点是美国过去十年的政治和经济时代精神，这是由监狱国家和监狱工业综合体的表现和后果所塑造的。我的讨论还受到人类学非殖民化动力和对学院内外种族主义日益增长的关注所激发的研究的指导。一路走来，并在最后一节中强调，我认为人类学对亲属关系的持久兴趣是构建我们对美国监狱国家和监狱种族景观的理解的有效方法。所审查的研究显示了种族屠杀的根深蒂固，揭示了其对黑人和棕色人种社区的破坏性，同时也揭示了亲属关系再生空间的创造。